The problems arise when you blow leaves around with leaf blowers. As I already pointed out, they are a noisy, polluting, inefficient technology. You cannot use them to blow leaves without also blowing all sorts of shit with them. A rake does the job, and is a much more appropriate technology for the task of moving leaves around.

This guy acts like he is a newbie who doesn't know how to spend from a private key he supposedly generated. At the same time, he offers deals like:

and


I call bullshit.

Fucked up, yes, but reading your story makes me wonder which of you two was more responsible for fucking it up a little bit more on that day...

Here is a picture I took two years ago, proving that my frustration with leaf blowers is at least that old:



Note the mandatory hearing and breathing protection, and dust and dried shit being stirred up in the air, along with exhaust from the stinky, inefficient two-stroke engine.

The fact that these idiotic things continue to exist is perplexing. They are heavy, loud, stinky, noisy. They scatter dust, dry shit, and mold spores into the air. They are inefficient.  They are retarded. A broom does the job, is cheaper, lighter, quiter, smells nicer, and can be used for flying, too.

Depends whom you are talking to. An economist, a merchant, a nerd, an anarchist, a socialist, a cop, a farmer, a teenager, a grandmother, a gangster, a monk, or any combination of the above will obviously have their own unique perspective and interests.

I like what Paysius did, for example - they have a pitch for merchants, and a pitch for "customers." Go check it out.

This thread is so amusing that I am considering unignoring the SEC agent. In the mean time, my response to OP: Bradley Manning is a true American hero.

Nemam konkretne odgovore, ali kao bivši rudar imam par komentara i dobronamernih pitanja. Ne očekujem da ovde odgovaraš, samo se nadam da ćeš pažljivo razmisliti i praviti detaljne planove pre nego što uložiš vreme i novac.
Šta ako uspeš da uvezeš čipove (recimo kao delove za računare), i uspeš da sastaviš tim koji ume da napravi štampane pločice i da isprogramira kontrolnu logiku, i da uspešno hladiš celo postrojenje? Lagano ćeš dobijati bitkoine, šta dalje? Ako ne ulažeš dobar deo zarade u stalno širenje, vrlo brzo će te ostatak mreže ugušiti - vrlo verovatno pre nego što isplatiš uloženo (pogotovo ako cena nastavi da raste, privlačeći sve više rudara).

Dalje, da li ćeš registrovati firmu? To bi verovatno pomoglo pri uvozu, imao bi možda i poreske olakšice.

Ključ uspeha rudara je tvrdoglavost. Difficulty (kako se to kaže?) raste i raste, rudari počnu da odustaju. Cena skoči, opet se svi zalete. Sve u krug. Cena onda padne na duže staze, opet počnu da odustaju. Diff možda čak i padne (desilo se ranije). Poenta je da u celom tom ludilu najbolje prolaze oni koji ćute i nastavljaju da rade, čak i ako u nekom periodu izgleda da gube novac i vreme.
Dobar primer je Havelock Mining Fund - pogledaj im mesečne i tromesečne izveštaje, da vidiš kako reinvestiraju i idu u korak sa rastom mreže.

Again, none of them use TLD with "citi" and "bank" in its name. Otherwise they wouldn't have to try all the tricks to spoof or mask the actual link. Trademarking "bitcoin" would make phishing harder and less effective, as it opens the perpetrators to additional legal risk.

So much bullshit... The only way to predict the difficulty is to have detailed information about each of the ASIC vendors' order books, about their production pipeline, and near-term plans. Here include the self-mining ASIC manufacturers. 

Nobody knows all this, therefore nobody can predict the difficulty.  The best you can get is to look at the price trend, and expect similar trend in difficulty to follow within 4-8 weeks. Of course you have to account for technology leaps like the one we are going through right now.

Absolutely overpriced. Paying BTC2.5 for ~300 MH/s or even BTC50 for ~10 GH/s does not make sense. You can get 300 MH/s GPU equivalent for ~BTC1. Sure, the power cost is higher, but this is not the main factor at these initial prices of hardware. Also, GPUs at least have some resale value if you decide to get out. Overall, migrating to the new technology does not make sense yet, as market is far from equilibrium.

I am glad to see not everyone sees things my way, because that is exactly what makes my decision meaningful. Good luck to you all. I will wait for the right opportunity to get some ASICs.

Glad to see it all worked out. I sent a message to MagicalTux asking to either update or redirect bitcoins.com - hopefully he acts fast to avoid more frustration for newcomers.

It all depends.

How come there is no citi-bank.com where I would be asked to log in?

If you are in a hurry, you can use dumpprivkey from the console to export the key associated with your receiving address, then import this to a blockchain.info wallet (never used it, but I assume it lets you import keys).

No need for any of this. I just searched for "ian bakewell" in a private browser session, on a public LTE IP, and still the first page of results clearly shows that he is being called a scammer by many.

I wonder how many newcomers step in dogshit like this on their first step, and turn away for good. It would be much better for everyone if bitcoin was trademarked by any entity that is at least more trustworthy than the average person on this planet. I know Tibanne started working on this, but not sure how far they got.

Try reading it. Surprisingly, there is very little technical detail, only broad strokes. Most of Bitcoin has been invented and developed by Satoshi and many others, after the paper was published.

Read the thread. He used bitinstant, and he received the coins without any problems. He even received free foot massage here from their representative. The problem is that he was using an outdated client which is likely out of sync with the network, so it doesn't show the transaction. Ultimately, the problem is that bitcoins.com, apparently operated by one of your "reliable" services (tibanne, that is mtgox) is irresponsibly abandoning their website and leaving it with outdated information.

Za početak, vidi https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Mining_Hardware_Comparison i ostale članke na tom vikiju.

Imaj na umu da kako popularnost i cena bitkoina rastu, raste i ukupno investiranje ljudi u rudarenje, što dovodi do sve težeg rudarenja. Pitao si za proračune - naravno da ih ljudi rade. Potraži "bitcoin mining calculator" npr. Pogledaj i bitcoin.sipa.be i bitcoinx.com/charts, da vidiš u šta se upuštaš.

Srećno!